Winter SolstiCelebration 2011 Slideshow by erphotbucket | Photobucket

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Experience the rebirth of Winter SolstiCelebration! photo aDSC_0502-1.jpg

Winter SolstiCelebration 2011: Our Human Journey, written by Amy Martin, explores how deeply the need to evolve is encoded in our humanity photo WSlogoblue.jpg

The stage was decorated by Rebecca Winn in graduated tones that evoked human progression photo stagefullRW.jpg

One of our sub-themes - balance - was captured in by Rebecca Winn's Tree of the Sun... photo stageSuntreeRW.jpg

... and Tree of the Moon photo stageMoontreeRW.jpg

Event producer Rodney Steman ponders before the service photo RodneyJW.jpg

Geoffrey Ricketts on harp, and storytellers Gene and Peggy Helmick-Richardson are ready for the evening to begin. photo GenePeggywGeoffreyJW-2.jpg

Some of the ensemble performers center themselves beforehand so their spirit could shine through photo preshowensembleBD.jpg

Winter SolstiCelebration host and creater Amy Martin introduces the event photo AmypodiumJW.jpg

Drums Not Guns prepares to invoke the Earth element and sanctify the space with a mighty vibration photo DrumsNotGunsBD.jpg

... with the stellar Earth/Africa Dancers raising the energy... photo EarthAfricadancersJW.jpg

... in a most colorful way. photo aDSC_9639.jpg

Monica Blossoms channels water's emotive properties with her beautiful FLowetry dancers photo aDSC_0854.jpg

Marie Martin of Circus Freaks stirs the winds of change with her ribbon dance... photo aDSC_9704.jpg

... while Russ Sharek of Circus Freaks brings to life air's wondrous intellectual qualities. photo aDSC_9723.jpg

The liberation of air was visualized by magician Bryan Lankford with an unepected release of 100s of paper butterflies photo aDSC_0917.jpg

With fire emerging from Bryan Lankford's human hand... photo aDSC_0932.jpg

... he passes the flame to Rachel Hullet of Circus Freaks, one of many times in the evening showcasing the visual metaphor of how passing the flame from one to another has kept human culture alive. photo aDSC_9778.jpg

Rachel Hullet of Circus Freaks dances with fire as Robin Hackett sings of changing the world by changing the way we think. photo aDSC_9805.jpg

Rachel Hullet of Circus Freaks mesmerizes... photo aDSC_0945.jpg

... so evocative of catalytic transformation. photo aDSC_9791.jpg

Storytellers Gene and Peggy Helmick-Richardson, in a balcony tribute to the Muppetts' Statler and Waldorf, thread the service with a continuing debate: Can the human mammal be redeemed? photo aDSC_0377.jpg

Gene Helmick-Richardson is rather sketical about that. photo GeneponderingJW-1.jpg

Joe Tinker as Everyman pours his soul out as a man struggling with the meaning of life. photo JoeTinkerJW-1.jpg

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